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Just stop it
"Most health experts say making the healthy decision is a matter of willpower. So that if you make an unhealthy decision you simply don’t want it badly enough. Like Bob Newhart in that old Mad TV sketch, they seem to think all you have to do is just “STOP IT ( Read more... ) -
Sherlock and the case of not understanding basic cyber security
My slight re-write of yesterday's Sherlock to make one thing a little less stupid. This may also count as a review. *spoilers*
Holmes: It's a top secret intra-government database. It'll be protected by a password policy incorporating a random series of both alpha-numeric and non-alpha-numeric characters in a variety of cases. It's a password style ( Read more... ) -
Equality and privilege in four (and a bit) really simple graphs
Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it. (points if you get that reference *wink*)
This is my explanation of how the process of achieving equality is believed to work and how it actually should work. I've labeled the graphs with men and women, but it can also be applied to religion, sexual ( Read more... ) -
Public Health
Fascinating documentary about the birth of the British National Health Service and the contemporary opposition to it. Nye Bevan was properly awesome! :-D (The opponents of the NHS actually compared Bevan to Hitler too!)
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To cheat or not to cheat on your diet
Okay, the title of this post is actually complete crap, because it's not about "cheating" and I'm personally not "on a diet". It's more nuanced than than that. It's about when to indulge a desire for something you know may be bad for you, but you really do want to eat it anyway.
For those moments, this pdf link is absolutely priceless! *grin*
Whole9 ( Read more... ) -
Words words words
I think it's a mark of there being something deeply morally sick in our society that the term "do-gooder" is considered an insult. -
The Devil and the Law
ROPER: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the day: Human Rights
"The UK already has a bill of rights. It's called the Human Rights Act."
- Benjamin Ward, It is David Cameron who is 'twisting and misrepresenting' human rights -
Solutions; not the language of war against our own country
IMHO, things we could do which could kick start our economy, revitalise our youth, re-enfranchise everyone, re-create communities and build civic pride ( Read more... )
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